| M3 Online Help support Searchable .pdf? [message #129801] |
Mon, 15 September 2003 16:46  |
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Originally posted by: mark.melvin.dspfactory.com
Does anyone know if the next release of Eclipse will support searching the
content of .pdf documents contributed to the Online Help extension
points? It is going to be ugly converting all of our .pdf manuals to
usable HTML the looks nice as well. It would be nice if we could just use
the .pdf files directly, but currently v2.1.1 does not index them as
searchable content.
I know, I know - XML - but we aren't even close to being there yet...
Thanks,
Mark.
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| Re: M3 Online Help support Searchable .pdf? [message #130174 is a reply to message #129827] |
Tue, 16 September 2003 10:29  |
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Originally posted by: mark.melvin.dspfactory.com
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:48:11 -0400, dorian birsan <dorian@birsan.net>
wrote:
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> "Mark Melvin" <mark.melvin@dspfactory.com> wrote in message
> news:oprvj6nam4c75pe5@news.eclipse.org...
>> Does anyone know if the next release of Eclipse will support searching
>> the
>> content of .pdf documents contributed to the Online Help extension
>> points?
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> I have not seen any plan items for PDF search support.
> Eclipse uses the Lucene for help search, and I have seen people
> successfully
> integrating PDF searches along HTML. At a minimum, Eclipse could provide
> a
> framework for allowing others to plugin parsers for other document types,
> such as PDF. I'd suggest you open a feature request and provide a
> detailed
> scenario of what your requirements are.
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> -Dorian
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Thanks, Dorian. I had a look at the Lucene page, and in addition I found
this link while Googling:
http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=1074237
Which links to PDFBox (http://www.pdfbox.org/) and Multivalent
(http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/Multivalent/), both of which have
support for Lucene. I'll look into it a little more.
At any rate, this is probably as good a case as any for pushing the
documentation dept. to move to a single-source system.
>> It is going to be ugly converting all of our .pdf manuals to
>> usable HTML the looks nice as well. It would be nice if we could just
>> use
>> the .pdf files directly, but currently v2.1.1 does not index them as
>> searchable content.
>>
>> I know, I know - XML - but we aren't even close to being there yet...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark.
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